Observing people
As I’ve blogged about before (last post Undran driver verket), I’m sort of people watcher. Perhaps not surprisingly, considering my (future) line of work, but none the less more so than other people I know, who dismiss my fascination with the trivialities of daily-day life as pointless – or even dull. Now I’ve been called many, many things in my as of yet rather brief life, but dull is an epithet I’d rather avoid. Being a tad geeky, nerdy, a bit of nutty professor, an eccentric… is all fine. Being dull is not.
Anyway, the latest thing I’ve discovered is the classifieds section of the newspaper. Typical me – it’s a semi-public, semi-private, semi-anonymous forum where people show a bit of themselves. It’s a nice way to observe and very undemanding. I simply read and wonder. Who is, e.g., this lady?
”I’m looking for ‘gals’ who are retired for health reasons too. I was born in ‘74. Not lesbian”.
What’s her story? Why use a little text in a newspaper? I understand wanting to see people in a similar life situation, but still can’t keep from wondering about what the greater story is. These classifieds offer just a little snippet of someones’ life – but just enough to get you wondering. It’s fascinating.
Man 34 looking for woman 30-44 to spend his life with. That’s rather direct. Most aren’t. Unfortunately, my computer crashed while I was writing this so I lost a lot of other classifieds and comments. But still, let me just add these observations to the cacophony that is the blogosphere.
